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Hello and welcome to my twice reinstated and updated photo reports of visits to narrow gauge model railway layouts and events! Following the sudden and untimely cessation of Fotopic in March 2011 and with it the loss of my photo galleries, I started this blog in order to try to keep my "Roving Reports" available to those who enjoy viewing them. I have linked this blogsite to the old galleries which I originally rebuilt and posted in albums in Picasaweb Once all the old reports had been rebuilt, I have continued to add completely new ones to cover my visits to events from April 2011 onwards.

In August 2016 Google very kindly and arbitrarily blocked access to Picasaweb in order to force everyone to use their "much better" Google Images, so I had to do the whole exercise again. Thanks! Google Images is certainly much easier to view, but to upload to - well try it yourself, I have made my own judgement and it isn't a very complimentary one, so the long term future of this blog remains in doubt.

Meanwhile......Because of the way this Blogspot works, the most recent postings appear first and the oldest ones last. Each report contains a link to the Google Images photo album plus captions for that report. The link will take you to the front page of the Google Images Album for this report. Left click on the first photo and it will open into a manually operated slideshow. A panel should open alongside the image on the right showing the number of the photo and the caption text. If it does not appear, click on the small white disk top right of the photo panel and it will open. On albums created before August 2016 which were created originally in Picasaweb, these are now in the Google Image Archive and the caption panel has to be opened manually for each image. I apologise for this, blame Google!

More recent albums created in Google Images keep the panel open.

in both cases, move forward or backwards by clicking the right or left arrows on your keyboard. When you have finished viewing, click the back arrow showing top left of the photo panel and this will take you back to the album opening page.

Close it in the normal way by clicking on the "X" top right or click the return arrow top left of the Windows screen to return to the blog, depending on which browser you use.

In Google Chrome you should click on the X and then select the tab for the blog from the windows tabs, in Internet explorer, click on the return arrow top left of the window to return to the blog. I'm afraid I don't know how other browsers such as Firefox vary in their operation.

Once back in the blog, any report can be accessed sequentially from the blog by scrolling downwards and if required, click on the "older posts" link at the bottom of the list, or simply go to the Blog Archive on the right of the window and select any report by simply clicking on the title.

Sunday, 31 August 2014

So, the excellent Oxfordshire NGM members day came to a
close and those of us in it for the duration all packed up and headed 130 miles
north, to Mansfield
in Nottinghamshire. This was the first full scale members day for the East
Midlands Group and they had found a good venue thanks to the generosity of
Portland College Principal (and East Midlands Group member!) Dr Mark Dale. No
less than 21 layouts and several static displays as well as 009 Society sales,
A1 models, Fourdees and Andrew Neale providing trade support. It was another
splendid day and I for one am very glad that I made the decision to travel a
long way from home and pay out for petrol and a hotel bed in order to attend -
well worth it and again much appreciation to the hosting Group for a very
enjoyable event indeed.

Tuesday, 26 August 2014

The first of 2 narrow gauge
modelling events this weekend saw the “009 Society Road Show” making tracks
to Steventon, near Abingdon, for the 2nd biennial open day organised
by Richard Holder and fellow members of the Oxfordshire NG Railway Modellers. A
splendid location, including a cricket match on the green outside the hall and
absolutely outstanding hospitality and organisation by the Group inside the
hall! There were14 top quality layouts,
a good selection of traders plus a very well stocked 009 Society sales stand
and excellent 5 star refreshments. It was a super day, spent in friendly
company and just the right start to a full weekend of modelling excellence! All
too soon, it was time to pack up the sales stock, Rod Allcock’s Corris layout
and A1 Models, all appearing at both events, and a number of 009 Society
members headed north towards the Sunday event at Mansfield.